Tuesday, June 3, 2008

Why Is A Presidential Candidate Connected With So Many America Haters?

Allow me to remind my readers who Father Michael Pfleger is before you see this new clip that has surfaced. Obama identified Pfleger in a 2004 interview with the Chicago Sun-Times as a key source of spiritual guidance. Pfleger is a regular guest speaker at Obama's church of twenty years. He is a supporter of Wright and Farakhan. In September, the Obama campaign brought Pfleger to Iowa to host one of several interfaith forums for the campaign. Pfleger has given money to Obama’s campaigns and Obama as a state legislator directed at least $225,000 towards social programs at St. Sabina’s, according to the Chicago Tribune. Recently in a sermon he mocked Hillary claiming that she thought a black was stealing her show. Pfleger has been scrubbed from the Obama campaign’s page that features the testimony of faith leaders. In this new clip Pfleger says "America is the greatest sin against God."

Politico's Ben Smith has drawn attention to Obama's ties to other radicals. William Ayers served with Obama on the board of the Chicago-based Woods Funds. "While Ayers and Dohrn may be thought of in Hyde Park as local activists, they're better known nationally as two of the most notorious -- and unrepentant -- figures from the violent fringe of the 1960s anti-war movement," Smith wrote. When Illinois State Senator Alice Palmer decided to retire in 1995, she hand-picked local left-winger Barack Obama as her successor. In order to introduce Obama to influential liberals in the district, she held a function at the home of Bill Ayers and his wife Bernadine Dohrn. This was, really, the beginning of Obama's political career, and it linked him forever with Ayers and Dohrn, with whom, as his campaign has acknowledged, he continues to have a friendly relationship. Ayers and Dohrn were famous radicals, and fugitives from the law, in the late 1960s and early 1970s. In a debate Obama replied that he does know Ayers and that he had done reprehensible things forty years ago but that the ancient history was irrelevant because it does not reflect his values or ideas.

Here is a picture of William Ayers, the Weatherman member who was on the same board as Obama, standing on Old Glory:

Here is a video of his wife Bernadine Dohrn from last November:

And then of course there is the infamous Jeremiah Wright, Obama's pastor of 20 years with whom we all know Obama is very close:

Louis Farrakhan has offered an unsolicited endorsement of Obama. Let us not forget that Michelle Obama has said she was proud of her country for the first time in her adult life because her husband was running.

Barack Obama himself said the following in his book, "Dreams from my Father" in 1995: “It is this world, a world where cruise ships throw away more food in a day than most residents of Port-au-Prince see in a year, where white folks’ greed runs a world in need, apartheid in one hemisphere, apathy in another hemisphere … That’s the world! On which hope sits!" Is it surprising that a man who wrote "white folks' greed runs a world in need" was drawn to the likes of Wright and Pfleger? This man does not belong anywhere near the White House. I don't think he should be in the Senate either.

How can Obama have all these connections with virulent America haters and still be considered a candidate for President of this country? There is absolutely nothing wrong with Americans drawing conclusions about Obama's judgement, character, and mindset when he has all these rabid anti-American connections. Is this really the man that is going to lead our country? Is he really the man the Democrat Party has chosen as thier candidate to lead the free world?

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